Homeopathy, Diet and Health

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Homeopathy, Diet and Health

• Taking a holistic viewpoint

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Hahnemann, OrganonAphorism 36 - 38

• Only one disease can exist in the body at a time.

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Herings Law of Cures

• Symptoms should disappear in the following order
  - from within outwards, from above downwards,
  from more important organs to less important
  organs, and in the reverse order in which they
  appeared.

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The epidemics today

• Heart disease
• Hypertension
• Diabetes
• Cancer
• Obesity
• Constipation

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72 year old man with

• Diabetes - 25 years (allopathy)
• Heart disease and hypertension - 7 years
  (allopathy)
• Cancer of the bladder - few months (no treatment)
• What should go first?

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Multiple diseases

• This will not work according to Herings law
  which is for symptoms of a natural disease.
• The artificial suppressions have to be removed
  first.
• In order to stop the medications for diabetes and
  blood pressure we need to first remove the cause
  for these two.

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Awareness

• Homeopathy can treat through awareness but its
  not so helpful in situations where we lack
  collective awareness as a species.

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Lifestyle changes - rapid, gentle, permanent
recovery.

• 74 year old patient of diabetes since 30 years -
  blood sugar 222. Within 2 weeks 88.
• 22 year old patient with insulin dependant
  diabetes - insulin injections 3 times a day -
  stopped insulin in 3 days.
• 56 year old diabetic - diabetes controlled in 1
  month.
• 76 year old patient, 3 years heart disease, 3
  weeks in hospital - off medication in 2 months.

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• 3 year old with chronic constipation stool
  needing mechanical removal - normal stools within
  days.
• Obesity - weight loss which does not revert after
  sometime.
• 11 year old with high blood pressure - reversed
  in 1month.
• 25 year old with asthma - no more attacks.

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Unnatural diet as a maintaining cause

• What would be the natural food for the human
  being?

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Humans are predominantly Herbivorous

• Reasons
• Primate ancestry
• Teeth
• Movement of jaws
• Saliva
• Long intestines
• Absence of claws
• Method of drinking
• Night vision absent

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Carnivores digestive system
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Recent research humans are herbivores and not
omnivores

• http//www.earthsave.bc.ca/materials/articles/heal
  th/comparative.html

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Our Herbivorous Habits

• Living in groups
• Desire for sweets
• Natural instincts
• Frequency of eating

Hart Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor
anthropology
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Milk and Milk Products
Milk a health food - but only for the calf.
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Foods natural to our anatomy
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No meat - where will I get my protein?

• Ever heard of someone with protein deficiency?
• (Where do cows get their protein?)

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Protein deficiency linked to severe malnutrition.

• Primary disease linked to inadequate protein
  consumption - Kwashiorkor

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• Primary diseases linked to excess protein
  consumption - osteoporosis and kidney disease.

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Percentage of protein in different animals milks

• Man 1.25 - 2.7
• Monkey 2.3
• Guinea Pig 8.55
• Rat 8.7
• Dog 10.11
• Cat 11.1
• Cow 3.3 - 4
• Goats 4.1

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If I dont drink milk where do I get my calcium?
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Calcium content of foods (per 100-gram portion)

• 16. Kale (cooked leaves) 187 mg
• 17. Lettuce (dark green) 68 mg
• 18. Molasses (dark) 684 mg
• 19. Mustard Green (raw) 183 mg
• 20. Mustard Green (cooked) 138 mg
• 21. Parsley 203 mg
• 22. Pistachio nuts 131 mg
• 23. Potato Chips 40 mg
• 24. Raisins 62 mg
• 25. Sesame Seeds 1160 mg
• 26. Sugar (Brown) 85 mg
• 27. Tofu 128 mg
• 28. Spinach (raw) 93 mg
• 29. Sunflower seeds 120 mg
• 30. Water Cress 151 mg

• 1. Human Breast Milk 33 mg
• 2. Almonds 234 mg
• 3. Amaranth 267 mg
• 4. Apricots (dried) 67 mg
• 5. Beans (pinto, black) 135 mg
• 6. Beet greens (cooked) 99 mg
• 7. Bran 70 mg
• 8. Swiss Chard (raw) 88 mg
• 9. Chickpeas (garbanzos) 150 mg
• 11. Collards (raw leaves) 250 mg
• 12. Cress (raw) 81 mg
• 13. Figs (dried) 126 mg
• 14. Hazelnuts 209 mg
• 15. Kale (raw leaves) 249mg

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The Relation of Protein to Calcium

• The Nurse's Health Study recently found women who
  consumed 95 grams of protein a day compared with
  those who consumed less than 68 grams a day had a
  22 greater risk of forearm fractures.

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Calcium imbalances in the zone diet
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Dr Benjamin Spock warned against milk

• "Cow's milk in the past has always been
  oversold as the perfect food, but we are now
  seeing that it isn't the perfect food at all and
  the government really shouldn't be behind any
  efforts to promote it as such."
• "Cow's milk has become a point of controversy
  among doctors and nutritionists. There was a time
  when it was considered very desirable, but
  research has forced us to rethink this
  recommendation...dairy products contribute to a
  surprising number of health problems..."
• Benjamin Spock, M.D., "Child
  Care," 7th Edition

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What else is bad about Milk?

• Milk is a cocktail of the following ingredients -
  
• Hormones
• Pus - average 7 drops / glass
• Concentration of pesticides
• Antibiotics
• Bacteria

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We consume more milk than we think. Milk and its
products are in many readymade foods

• 1 oz of cheese is made from 16 oz of milk!

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Vegan diet and Stamina

• Dr. Per-Olaf Astrand conducted an informal study
  of diet and endurance using nine highly trained
  athletes, changing their diet every three days.
  At the end of every diet change, each athlete
  would pedal a bicycle until exhaustion.

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• Those with
• a high protein and high fat meat (carnivore) diet
  averaged 57 minutes.
• a mixed (omnivore) diet, lower in meat, fat and
  protein averaged 1 hour and 54 minutes twice the
  endurance of the meat and fat eaters.
• A high carbohydrate diet lasted 2 hours and 47
  minutes, triple the endurance of the high-protein
  group.
• (Source Astrand, Per-Olaf, Nutrition Today
  3no2, 9-11,1968)
• (http//www.filipinovegetarianrecipe.com/why_veget
  arian_foods_are_best_for_you/vegetarian_foods_are_
  energizing.htm)

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More Strong and powerful vegans.
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Our needs

• pH alkaline
• Fibre
• Nutrients
• Health Health Nutrition
• Calories (Eat to Live, Joel
  Fuhrman, MD)
• What about nutritional supplements?

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Unnatural Plant based foods
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Refined foods

• Oil
• Other fats like butter, lard, margarine, butter
  substitutes
• Sugar
• White flour (our brown breads)
• White rice
• Processed foods, soft drinks
• All of these give us calories without nutritional
  value. Because of the lack of fibre, more is
  eaten leading to obesity.

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Effects of refined foods

• Diabetes, heart disease, elevated triglycerides,
  elevated cholesterol, constipation and obesity...
  
• Whole foods contain complex carbohydrates.
• Refined foods contain simpler carbohydrates.

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Percentage of nutrients lost when whole wheat
flour is refined into white flour Food
Revolution - John Robbins

• Protein 25
• Fibre 95
• Calcium 56
• Iron 84
• Phosphorus 69
• Potassium 74
• Zinc 76
• Copper 62
• Manganese 82

• Selenium 52
• Thiamin (vit B1) 73
• Riboflavin (vit B2) 81
• Niacin (Vit B3) 80
• Pantothenic Acid (vit B5)
  56
• Vitamin B6 87
• Folate 59
• Vitamin E 95

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Effects of sugars

• No longer resembles a food, is an artificial
  substance and a drug.
• The chemicals used in processing (phosphoric
  acid, calcium phosphate and others) are potent
  and health-debilitating.
• Has a tremendous amount of carbonic acid which
  disturbs the nutritional balance.
• Robs the body nutrients, especially the minerals
  chromium, zinc and calcium, and vitamins C and
  B-complex.

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Sugar

• Destroys digestion enzymes in the mouth, stomach,
  the small intestines and the pancreas.
• Is released into the blood too quickly which is
  toxifying and damages the body cells.

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Sugar in fast foods and ready made foods

• 70 percent of the sugar we consume is hidden in
  foods.
• 12-ounce soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar.
• Even pizza has a considerable amount of sugar in
  it, and so does commercial tomato ketchup.

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Effects of caffeine (found in coffee, tea, colas)

• Increases stomach acid secretion and promotes
  ulcers.
• Produces anxiety, irritability, depression mood
  changes.
• Stimulant action - Raising the blood pressure,
  damaging blood vessels and causing heart attacks.
  
• Birth defects. Infant deaths.

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Effects of colas
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Fried Foods

• Carbohydrates subjected to high temperatures
  become carcinogenic.
• Oil heated over or for a long period of time is
  carcinogenic.
• What oils should we use?
• Oil Alternatives
• Alternative to frying

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Essential Fatty Acids

• Only plants can create two types of
  polyunsaturated fats called essential fatty acids
  (EFA) known as omega-3 and omega-6 fats (w-3 and
  w-6 fats).

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Plants rich in EFA

• Linoliec acids - safflower, sunflower, hemp seed,
  soyabeans, walnut, pumpkin, sesame, flax
• Alpha Linolenic - flax, hemp, canola (rapeseed),
  soybeans, walnut, green leafy vegetables,
  purslane, perilla
• Gamma Linolenic - borage, black currant seed,
  primrose

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Too much of a good thing

• These EFAs protect against atherosclerosis and
  heart attacks, as well as relieve rheumatoid
  arthritis, diabetic neuropathy.
• Larger intake of these also leads to heart
  attacks.

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Less refined foods are less harmful but not as
good as whole foods

• Examples fruit juices, molasses, rice syrup
  etc.

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Raw foods are live foods
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Dead foods
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Rules to Follow in Diet

• Eat foods that are anatomically suitable.
• Eat whole rather than refined or processed in any
  way.
• Eat fresh foods, unprocessed.
• Eat foods grown in the vicinity and that are
  seasonal.
• Choose organic over artificially grown ones.
• Food combining is important.
• Avoid junk food and artificial food.

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Health Considerations of Organic

• Toxic effect of pesticides cause cancer,
  Parkinsons, diabetes, hormonal disturbances
  including early puberty and various other
  diseases.
• Diminished nutritive value of non -organic
  produce.

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Organic Produce vs conventional produce
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Decline of mineral content in some vegetables,
1914 - 1992 (average per 100gms)

• Source The Healing Power of Minerals by Paul
  Bergner, Prima Publishing 1997

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What are the results of eating foods with high
nutritive value

• Quantity required decreases.
• No nutritional supplements are required.
• Tasty. Spices and food additives are not needed.

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Results of eating foods with low nutritive value

• Obesity with poor health.

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B12 in Vegans

• This is the only nutrient that anyone on a whole
  food plant based diet is likely to lack.
• B12 is only made by bacteria, yeast and tiny life
  forms.
• Meat and milk have plenty of B12 due to the huge
  bacterial flora.

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Natural Vegan B12 sources

• Intestinal flora
• Fermented foods such as miso, tempeh, sauerkraut,
  plant milk yogurts, rejeuvelac.
• Nutritional yeast, spirulina

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Reasons for B12 deficiency in vegans

• Sterility of foods (pesticides, fertilisers
  irradiation) You can avoid this by eating organic
  produce from farmers markets or growing your own.
• Antibiotics taken

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Disease as a path to personal growth

• The significant problems we face cannot be solved
  at the same level of thinking we were at when we
  created them.
• 
  Albert Einstein

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Chronic Diseases

• Start at a very young age but we do not notice
  them because of our natural body reserves

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Obesity

• Hunger will be felt until the nutrient need is
  met or until the stomach capacity is filled.
• Fibre is volume without calories.
• Fibre contains nutrients and enzymes.

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Constipation

• Fibre holds water and keeps stools soft.
• Straining for stools can cause hemorrhoids,
  diverticulitis, appendicitis, hiatus hernia.
  Remnants cause irritable bowel syndrome

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Heart Disease and Hypertension

• Only animals produce cholesterol. Plants never
  do. We being animals produce and need
  cholesterol. Excess comes from animals and fried
  foods
• High caffeine and sodium intake, smoking also
  affect.

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Diabetes

• The result of diabetes is high blood sugar.
• The causes - simple carbohydrates and sugar in
  large quantities
• IGF from milk

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Cancers and tumours

• Proteins are growth producing foods.
• Hormones in milk predispose to breast, ovarian
  and prostate cancers.
• Lack of fibre in meat and milk cause intestinal
  cancer and lend to absorption of toxins.

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Problems of the Teeth and skeletal system,
osteoporosis

• Starts from childhood - the condition of the
  teeth are an indicator.
• Causes - anything having an acid reaction in the
  body - proteins, sugar, colas, coffee, tea,
  wine..

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Other diseases that are caused by meat and milk

• Indigestion and Gas formation, acidity
• Arthritis and joint complaints
• Kidney stones
• Urinary tract infections
• Acne
• Allergies

• Asthma and sinus infections (milk)
• Depressions, mood swings, stress
• Iron Deficiency (milk)
• Tuberculosis
• Mad cow disease (CJS)

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References

• Reversing Heart Disease - Dean Ornish
• Eat to Live - Joel Fuhrman (www.drfuhrman.com)
• The McDougall Plan - Dr McDougall
  (www.drmcdougall.com)
• The China Study - T Colin Campbell
• Food Revolution A Diet for a New America - John
  Robbins

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Food, like homeopathy affects the mind and body

• Emotions caused by adrenaline in flesh foods -
  fear, anxiety, depression, lack of self
  confidence, violence, suffering desperation,
  isolation, stress.

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Veal
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Chicken Transport
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Pigs
Sows
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Organic Dairy
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"Nothing will benefit human health and increase
the chances for survival of life on Earth as much
as the evolution to a vegetarian diet"

• Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our
  nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism,
  it can change the destiny of humankind.
• Albert Einstein

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ECOLOGICAL IMPACT

• Food for thought

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Water

• 500 litres 1 kg of potatoes,
• 600 litres 1 kg of wheat,
• 2000 litres 1 kg of rice,
• 1,00,000 litre 1 kg of beef
• Livestock consume 80 of the worlds water
  supply.

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Land Usage

• 12 - 16 kilos of grain - 1 kilo of meat or milk.
• Non vegetarian - 16 acres of land
• Vegetarian - 0.5 acres

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Grazing destroys the forests. 260 million acres
of virgin forest are cleared for cropland to
support a meat centered diet.
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Energy

• The worlds petroleum reserves would last for -
• 13 years if all humans were meat eaters
• 260 years if all humans were vegetarian

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60 million people die of starvation each year. Is
it because of the meat we eat?

• 80 of the corn grown and 40 of the total
  grains are consumed by livestock.
• 12 Lbs of wheat produce 12 loaves of bread or 1
  hamburger.

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• One billion humans could be saved from starvation
  if Americans ate just 10 less meat.

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The figures

• There are now 20 billion livestock on earth -
  more than triple the number of human beings!
• Livestock contribute to more greenhouse gases
  than all the cars combined.

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• Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife by
  the million in order to protect his domestic
  animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic
  animals by the billion and eats them. This in
  turn kills man by the million, because eating all
  those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal-
  health conditions like heart disease, kidney
  disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and
  kills millions more animals to look for cures for
  these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other
  human beings are being killed by hunger and
  malnutrition because food they could eat is being
  used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some
  people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity
  of man, who kills so easily and so violently and,
  once a year, sends out cards praying for "Peace
  on Earth."
• Coats, C. David from Old
  MacDonald's Factory Farm

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• Until he extends the circle of his compassion to
  all living beings, man will not himself be free.
• Dr Albert
  Schweitzer 1875 - 1965

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Many good reasons to go vegan besides health

• Starvation and poverty
• Ecology and environment
• Wildlife
• Human rights
• Animal rights

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There are lots of different theories about what
to eat. How do we know what to believe?

• Understand what nature intended for us.
• Think whole - In nature there is always a
  balance. If it is right for you it will also be
  right for the environment and right for other
  species.

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How to help your patients using this method

• Change your own diet first guide.
• Do lab tests before and after.
• Make sure they do it 80 at least. If they are
  very sick insist on 100 compliance.
• Be sure to help the get off the medications
• Once you have gotten into it, its simpler that
  homeopathy, the results are faster and as high as
  90. After the patient is rid of most of his
  physical problems the homeopathic picture becomes
  very clear if at all a remedy is still needed.

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How to cook?

• Compassionate Cooks www.compassionatecooks.com
• Dr McDougalls DVD www.drmcdougall.com

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Would you sacrifice your tastes for my life?
Harold